Disboutiquers Part 17 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew ;-)

[Tnkrbelle565]

That is your first patchwork???

She is soooo sweet!!!!

 

[pixieamazon]

ok another random post so that i can get that picture on here....does anyone know when terence will be with the fairies? my dd7 has been saving her money for a year so that she can meet the fairies...so now she is super excited that we are going for the holidays and she can have all her money to spend on fairy stuff!

 

[pixieamazon]

she had to hang it in her room last night to look at it while she went to sleep(actually would have worn it to bed if i would have let her

 

[TinkerbelleMom]

I'm going to tru and post a few pics...I'm out of practice, so bear with me. My model wasn't in a mood to show off today, in fact, she hates the Feliz I worked all of yesterday on So you get to see it on a hanger instead. The fabric came from my stash, it's a really old Daisy Kingdom somone gave to me when she was mucking out her stash, so no $$ lost if she really won't wear it. I've also got one pic of the patchwork Minnie skirt she wore to MK last Monday.

And happy news, I've got a countdown!!! We've decided to go to MNSSHP, and are making a weekend of it to go to F&WF too. So now I need to make 3 costumes, 2 more customs and come up with something for me to wear too!

 

[MinnieVanMom]

Trying to embroider with a migraine make the head hurt worse.

 

[MaidMarian]

Does anyone have recommendations for a sewing machine for a child? My soon to be 5 yr old is asking for one for Christmas. Hobby Lobby has a little Singer for kids which I though would be great until I read the reviews. Any one have one they really like?

 

[Shannalee724]

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She is adorable. What a little cutie patootie!! The outfits are very nice, too!!

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

Does anyone have recommendations for a sewing machine for a child? My soon to be 5 yr old is asking for one for Christmas. Hobby Lobby has a little Singer for kids which I though would be great until I read the reviews. Any one have one they really like?

Aisling has the one from the Discovery Store. It's not great but it's fun for a 5 year old. It comes with a little kit. Really cute.

 

[eeyore3847]

Does anyone have recommendations for a sewing machine for a child? My soon to be 5 yr old is asking for one for Christmas. Hobby Lobby has a little Singer for kids which I though would be great until I read the reviews. Any one have one they really like?

my 8 year old has the Hello Kitty sewing machine and I think it is perfect for her... It was originally $99 and then about a year and a half ago I got it on clearance for $40 at target.... I think it works great and I have even used it in a bind!

Lori

 

[Stephres]

my 8 year old has the Hello Kitty sewing machine and I think it is perfect for her... It was originally $99 and then about a year and a half ago I got it on clearance for $40 at target.... I think it works great and I have even used it in a bind!

Lori

When my sewing machine was acting up I used my daughter's Hello Kitty one too. It is a great machine. I bought it from target.com.

 

[rie'smom]

Those are great!! Are the mickey bars my embroidery design, or did you do them by hand? Either way, everything looks great!

I love your designs and just bought several. My friend is taking her family to WDW for Thanksgiving. She has a granddaughter and I'm using your designs to make a few t shirts for her.

I had my embroidery machine for a YEAR before Heather forced me to bring it to her house and she showed me how to use it!
Now, I don't know what the heck I was afraid of! Heather really needs to do a video tutorial! Corey should be getting his fancy Schmancy camera today, I'll send him over to video her!

My machine just sat there for awhile until I got brave enough to embroider with it. It reminds me of starting out on the computers 20 years ago. Once I realized that it was pretty hard to mess up, it became a lot if fun.

I love video tutorials and ones that would explain just the easy stupid stuff would be great. Simple things like hooping the fabric, putting the hoop on the machine, buttons to press, floating. Thread choices, etc.

As a beginner the information is overwhelming and I end up not knowing what to do. So I make a lot of mistakes!

Today I am going to take old t shirts and try floating. I plan to do some adjustment of the tension and keep going until I get it right so we can get our MNSSHP Incredible outfits.

I went to bed with a and woke up with one still. It is going to be a long day. 5 more days of work, 8 days till Disney.

Mistakes are a good thing-you really learn a lot from them.
Until heather does her tutorial, try youtube. There are lots of tutes on a variety of sewing/embroidery techniques.

 

[anggye]

I LOVE the Broadway theme!!

My daughter is going as Elphaba for Halloween, she loves her! She wants a Wicked birthday party but she's only 7. I told her she can have one if she really wants one but to be prepared to be the only one at the party that knows what Wicked is.

I saw in an earlier post that someone gave you some great ideas already. I would serve Green Elixir (Green punch). Maybe you can order cheap witches hats for favors. I would decorate with lots of green and black. You could also split the room and do one side green and black and the other side pink and white for Glinda.

That is funny about your daughter being the only one to know what Wicked is I made my daughter a Wicked bag for school and she carries my Wicked water bottle and people are always asking what is that?! I don't know how many people are going to know what the theme of the party is., I color copied the front of my playbill for the front of the invite, so hopefully people will get that it's a musical!!

 

[teresajoy]

Dropping in to say Happy Monday!!!

I'm all done sewing for our upcoming trip so I have nothing to share!!! Really I'm waiting for the PM for Heather and Teresa kicking me out of the group!

What? You didn't get our PM??

I always had problems with sticky stabilizer gumming up my needle. Then, I bought Floriani sticky back stabilizer. I was told that it has silicone in it specifically to keep it from gumming up your needle/machine. I really can see a huge difference! It is expensive, so I try not to use it unless I have to. But, it's very much worth it, in my opinion.

Thanks Shannon!

I love crafting and all cool things like that but, not to worry I am better with a glue gun than I am with a computer. Hoping to meet friends and have fun with this thread. Ypu seem to be my kind of people.
Brandy

Brandy!

I FINALLY got these pics on the computer. I couldn't find my cord. I still need to make an apron and bow for the Minnie dress. She'll be wearing that to Chef Mickey's and Magic Kingdom. I got her some cute yellow shoes from walmart for $5. Once I get the entire thing finished I'll take another pic. The Nemo outfit is my 1st patchwork twirl. It took forever on that one but I've made another since then and it went much quicker. I'm in the process of making an Ariel dress right now. That should be finished by wednesday or thursday. I've still got to do a NBC patchwork twirl, a Lilo dress, and a pink Cindy dress before Oct 15...I hope I can get everything done in time! Sorry the bottom two pics are rotated. I've been trying to change it on photobucket for 10 minutes and it's not working Grr...

Great outfits!

she had to hang it in her room last night to look at it while she went to sleep(actually would have worn it to bed if i would have let her

Your daughter is so pretty! Is this the 8 or 11 year old? The dress looks fantastic!!! i love that she wanted to look at it while she went to sleep! How SWEET!

I'm going to tru and post a few pics...I'm out of practice, so bear with me. My model wasn't in a mood to show off today, in fact, she hates the Feliz I worked all of yesterday on So you get to see it on a hanger instead. The fabric came from my stash, it's a really old Daisy Kingdom somone gave to me when she was mucking out her stash, so no $$ lost if she really won't wear it. I've also got one pic of the patchwork Minnie skirt she wore to MK last Monday.

And happy news, I've got a countdown!!! We've decided to go to MNSSHP, and are making a weekend of it to go to F&WF too. So now I need to make 3 costumes, 2 more customs and come up with something for me to wear too!

Your Feliz looks great, I'm sorry your daughter doesn't like it. Maybe she will come around!


The patchwork outfit is adorable!

Trying to embroider with a migraine make the head hurt worse.

April!!! Go lie down!

 

[emcreative]

Wait...I've been using the sticky back stabilizer and it's been working great. So far (knock on wood) the two shirts I did messed up for COMPLETELY different reasons- there wasn't any gunking up or shirt puckering.

Was this a fluke?

 

[ireland_nicole]

I FINALLY got these pics on the computer. I couldn't find my cord. I still need to make an apron and bow for the Minnie dress. She'll be wearing that to Chef Mickey's and Magic Kingdom. I got her some cute yellow shoes from walmart for $5. Once I get the entire thing finished I'll take another pic. The Nemo outfit is my 1st patchwork twirl. It took forever on that one but I've made another since then and it went much quicker. I'm in the process of making an Ariel dress right now. That should be finished by wednesday or thursday. I've still got to do a NBC patchwork twirl, a Lilo dress, and a pink Cindy dress before Oct 15...I hope I can get everything done in time! Sorry the bottom two pics are rotated. I've been trying to change it on photobucket for 10 minutes and it's not working Grr...

Really, really cute!!

she had to hang it in her room last night to look at it while she went to sleep(actually would have worn it to bed if i would have let her

Great job! You can tell she really loves it!

I'm going to tru and post a few pics...I'm out of practice, so bear with me. My model wasn't in a mood to show off today, in fact, she hates the Feliz I worked all of yesterday on So you get to see it on a hanger instead. The fabric came from my stash, it's a really old Daisy Kingdom somone gave to me when she was mucking out her stash, so no $$ lost if she really won't wear it. I've also got one pic of the patchwork Minnie skirt she wore to MK last Monday.

And happy news, I've got a countdown!!! We've decided to go to MNSSHP, and are making a weekend of it to go to F&WF too. So now I need to make 3 costumes, 2 more customs and come up with something for me to wear too!

I think you did a wonderful job on the Feliz, sorry DD won't wear it; I really hope she comes around. Love the mickey outfit!

 

[momto2cuties]

Hello again! I have yet to post any exciting outfits, but someday, when I'm as organized as well as all of you...I'll do it!

I do have a question for all of you sewers!!! My daughter wants to be Ariel for Halloween, and my son wants to "match" her and be Flounder. I remembered seeing a cool fish costume that one of the employees at our Hancock Fabric made (before the store went out-of-business!). Now that I'm trying to find that pattern, I have discovered that it is out of print! (Simplicity 4926). It went for over $30 on ebay, and I just can't justify paying that for a pattern (especially one that I'll only use once!).

Does anyone have an old, used, copy of it they'd be willing to lend me? I'd gladly pay shipping and be very gentle until I quickly return it to you.

Or does anyone have any better fish ideas? I've hunted all over the internet, and that one seems the coolest...

Thanks in advance!
Jenny

 

[Shannalee724]

I have only just joined back in, so I may have missed this. Is there still a fabric swap? I have 3 yards of fabric, that I will NEVER use. My MIL bought it for me when I was looking for some best friends fabric. Anyway, I would love to trade it for something I will use.

 

[snubie]

Does anyone have a good source of not terribly expensive knit fabrics? I am specifically looking for a white knit with black dots. And ideas where I could find this? I tried ebay and etsy with not a lot of luck.

 

[luv2go2disney]

I have a brother 750D and I am already wishing I had a bigger hoop machine. Also putting the hoop on the machine has brought me to tears!

OK, send me to your ebay connection cuz sista I am ready for different machine.

Let me know when you are ready to upgrade & I will gladly take the machine off your hands!

Miranda

I was not able to find the green/green dots fabric. They still had the coordinating fabrics though...I think I will be out by the other Hobby Lobby on Friday & I can check there if it is not found by then.

Christi

 

[HeatherSue]

I just finished Tessa's dress for Ohana's! I'm going to make Sawyer a t-shirt with Stitch on it and I'm going to have the Minnie head with the flower on my shirt.

I used the Spiral Skirt from YCMT and paired it with the simply sweet bodice. I just left the elastic out of the straps and made them shorter. I also added flounce between the spiral strips. The whole dress took me forever to make and I'm not sure I love it. I wish the spirals were more full at the top, instead of starting straight and then flaring out.

The back. Please ignore the pins- This is before I shortened the straps.

Closeup of the Lilo fabric that my dear sister gave me 2 years ago when I first started sewing. It was one of the first items in my stash:

Now I need to make another Baby Simba dress (the first one got ripped when she was playing in it about a year ago). Then, I have a whole bunch of t-shirts to applique. I think that's about it!